Louise Sund
Louise Sund Position: Visiting Professor School/office: School of Humanities, Education and Social SciencesEmail: bG91aXNlLnN1bmQ7b3J1LnNl
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About Louise Sund
Louise Sund is Professor of Education at Mälardalen University and visiting Professor of Education at Örebro university. Sund specializes in the ethical and political aspects of environmental and sustainability education. She is currently the PI in a research project funded by the Swedish Research Council entitled, A decolonial approach to teaching global justice issues (DecoPrax) (2022-2026) that aims to empirically investigate with teachers the possibilities and challenges of taking up ethically and politically charged issues in the classroom. Sund is also a co-investigator in a research project funded by the Swedish Research Council entitled Environmental and sustainability education meets the reality of schooling (2024-2026). Sund runs two research groups: the Practice-oriented social science education research group at Mälardalen university and the Critical perspectives on environmental and sustainability education research group at Örebro university. She is a member of the Environmental and Sustainability Education Research Group Örebro (ESERGO) at Örebro University.
Sund was co-investigator of Teaching for sustainable development through ethical global issues pedagogy: Participatory research with teachers funded by the British Academy (2018-2019) and Teaching global equity and justice issues through a critical lens (2018-2021) funded by the Swedish Research Council. She is a former member of the convenor group for the network Environmental and Sustainability Education Research for the European Conference on Educational Research. She is one of the founders and a steering committee member of the Nordic research network for environmental and sustainability education.
Research projects
Active projects
- A decolonial approach to teaching global justice issues (DecoPrax)
- Environmental and sustainability education meets the reality of schooling
Completed projects
Publications
Articles in journals
- Tryggvason, Á. , Sund, L. & Pashby, K. (2025). Taking on a Critical Approach to Global Justice Issues Teaching: Perspectives from Swedish Teachers. Nordisk tidsskrift for pedagogikk og kritikk, 11 (1), 209-225. [BibTeX]
- Eriksen, K. G. , Jore, M. K. , Loftsdóttir, K. , Mikander, P. & Sund, L. (2024). Education and Coloniality in the Nordics. Nordisk tidsskrift for pedagogikk og kritikk, 10 (3), 1-13. [BibTeX]
- Sund, L. & Öhman, J. (2023). A transactional model of moral learning: How to challenge unsustainable denials. Environmental Education Research, 29 (10), 1402-1416. [BibTeX]
- Pashby, K. , Sund, L. & Tryggvason, Á. (2023). Global citizenship as taken-for-grantedness: reflecting on Swedish students’ trip to Tanzania. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 1-18. [BibTeX]
- Walshe, N. & Sund, L. (2022). Developing (Transformative) Environmental and Sustainability Education in Classroom Practice. Sustainability, 14 (1). [BibTeX]
- Tryggvason, Á. , Sund, L. & Öhman, J. (2022). Schooling and ESE: revisiting Stevenson’s gap from a pragmatist perspective. Environmental Education Research, 28 (8), 1237-1250. [BibTeX]
- Öhman, J. & Sund, L. (2021). A didactic model of sustainability commitment. Sustainability, 13 (6). [BibTeX]
- Pashby, K. & Sund, L. (2020). Decolonial options and challenges for ethical global issues pedagogy in Northern Europe secondary classrooms. Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education, 4 (1), 66-83. [BibTeX]
- Sund, L. & Pashby, K. (2020). Delinking global issues in northern Europe classrooms. The Journal of Environmental Education, 51 (2), 156-170. [BibTeX]
- Pashby, K. , da Costa, M. & Sund, L. (2020). Pluriversal possibilities and challenges for Global Education in Northern Europe. Journal of Social Science Education, 19 (4), 45-62. [BibTeX]
- Sund, L. , Quennerstedt, M. & Öhman, M. (2019). The embodied social studies classroom: Repositioning the body in the social sciences in school. Cogent Education, 6 (1), 1-21. [BibTeX]
- Sund, L. & Pashby, K. (2018). ‘Is It That We Do Not Want Them to Have Washing Machines?’: Ethical Global Issues Pedagogy in Swedish Classrooms. Sustainability, 10 (10). [BibTeX]
- Sund, P. & Sund, L. (2017). ”Alla gör fel?!” Hinder för lärares bedömning av elevers praktiska förmågor under ett nationellt prov. NorDiNa: Nordic Studies in Science Education, 13 (1), 3-16. [BibTeX]
- Sund, L. (2016). Facing global sustainability issues: Teachers’ experiences of their own practices in environmental and sustainability education. Environmental Education Research, 22 (6), 788-805. [BibTeX]
- Sund, L. & Öhman, J. (2014). On the need to repoliticise environmental and sustainability education: rethinking the post-political consensus. Environmental Education Research, 20 (5), 639-659. [BibTeX]
- Sund, L. & Öhman, J. (2014). Swedish teachers’ ethical reflections on a study visit to Central America. Journal of Moral Education, 43 (3), 316-331. [BibTeX]
- Sund, L. & Öhman, J. (2011). Cosmopolitan perspectives on education and sustainable development: between universal ideals and particular values. Utbildning och Demokrati, 20 (1), 13-34. [BibTeX]
Articles, reviews/surveys
- Mossberg, F. , Lundqvist, J. & Sund, L. (2024). An international scoping review focused on gifted and talented children: Early identification and inclusive education. Journal of Childhood, Education & Society, 5 (3), 407-423. [BibTeX]
Books
- Öhman, J. , Tryggvason, Á. & Sund, L. (2025). Didaktiska modeller för miljö- och hållbarhetsutbildning. Lund: Studentlitteratur AB. [BibTeX]
Chapters in books
- Sund, L. & Öhman, J. (2022). A transactional perspective on ethics and morals. In: Jim Garrison; Johan Öhman; Leif Östman, Deweyan transactionalism in education: Beyond self-action and inter-action (pp. 193-206). London: Bloomsbury Academic. [BibTeX]
- Pashby, K. & Sund, L. (2020). Critical GCE in the era of SDG 4.7.: Discussing HEADSUP with secondary teachers in England, Finland, and Sweden. In: Douglas Bourn, Bloomsbury Handbook for Global Education and Learning (pp. 314-326). . Bloomsbury Academic. [BibTeX]
- Pashby, K. , da Costa, M. , Sund, L. & Corcoran, S. (2020). Resourcing an ethical global issues pedagogy: A participatory project with secondary teachers in northern Europe. In: Sandra Saúde, Maria Albertina Raposo, Nuno Pereira, Ana Isabel Rodrigues, Teaching and Learning Practices that Promote Sustainable Development and Active Citizenship (pp. 47-66). . IGI Global. [BibTeX]
- Pashby, K. & Sund, L. (2019). Bridging 4.7 with Secondary Teachers: Engaging critical scholarship in Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship. In: Bamber, Philip, Teacher Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship: Critical Perspectives on Values, Curriculum and Assessment (pp. 99-112). . Routledge. [BibTeX]
- Sund, L. & Pashby, K. (2019). Taking-up ethical global issues in the classroom. In: Poeck, K. van; Östman, L. and Öhman, J., Sustainable Development Teaching: Ethical and political challenges (pp. 204-212). . Routledge. [BibTeX]
Conference papers
- Tryggvason, Á. , Mårdh, A. , Öhman, J. & Sund, L. (2024). The Existential and the Instrumental Logic in ESE. Paper presented at European Conference on Educational Research (ECER 2024), Cyprus, Nicosia, August 27-30, 2024. [BibTeX]
- Tryggvason, Á. , Sund, L. & Öhman, J. (2021). Schooling and ESE: Revisiting Stevenson’s argument from a pragmatist perspective. Paper presented at European Conference on Educational Research (ECER 2021), (Online Conference), September 6–10, 2021. [BibTeX]
- Tryggvason, Á. , Sund, L. & Öhman, J. (2021). The habit of schooling and the habit of inquiry in ESE. Paper presented at Nordisk forskningskonferanse om bærekraft i utdanning, Oslo, Norway, October 21–22, 2021. [BibTeX]
- Sund, L. & Öhman, J. (2013). Teachers’ ethical reflections on a North–South study visit. Paper presented at ECER i Istanbul, Turkiet, 10–13 september, 2013. [BibTeX]
- Sund, L. & Öhman, J. (2012). Poststructural criticism of cosmopolitanism: implications for education for sustainable development. Paper presented at American Educational Research Association (AERA). [BibTeX]
Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries
- Sund, L. (2014). Om global etik i miljö- och hållbarhetsutbildningens policy och praktik. (Doctoral dissertation). (Comprehensive summary) Örebro: Örebro university. [BibTeX]